Not many "research students" have enough money to pay an attorney $250-350/hour to look over their employment contracts.
How much value do you place on the "software rights" (not a recognized legal term, as far as I'm aware) related to the work you'll be doing for the duration of the contract? More than a few hundo?
Brian Eno is generally credited with coining the term "ambient music" in the mid-1970s to refer to music that, as he stated, can be either "actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener", and that exists on the "cusp between melody and texture."
The term may be from the mid-1970s, but the concept is much a half-century older. Erik Satie conceived the same thing as "furniture music" around 1917.
I went to one a few years ago at GenCon and found the host to be a prick, personifying all the bad stereotypes of a "hardcore gamer."
Funny, I find him to personify all the bad stereotypes of a "self-congratulatory putz".
The only credential Tommy Tallarico can claim that qualifies him for his role as a curator video game music is that he was the first to have the idea. (His sound design work on classic game titles like "Cool Spot" and "Color A Dinosaur" certainly doesn't suffice.)
His inclusion of his own works on the Video Games Live program alongside the likes of Uematsu and Kondo is, quite frankly, abuse of power.
a little thought reminds me that adaptive music goes back at least as far as Ballblazer in 1984-85
"Pitfall II" (1984) also used adaptive music; the soundtrack started off energetic, would switch to a gloomier minor-key version when you got hit and were sent back to a savepoint, and would return to heroic after picking up a prize. The original Atari 2600 version also may have been the first game cartridge to include its own custom audio chip; music was so important to that title that the extra hardware costs were justified, even as the market crash was beginning.
I Got burned too many times with grads that tooks computers because of there is money in IT but they are not actually interested in computers (and therefore not interested in learning more )
And your solution to this applicant screening problem was to seek candidates that have demonstrated their interest in learning by NOT going to university...?
The point was that it was a DX 10 application running entirely in software.
The point is that the performance demonstrated with this software rasterizer is no better than 25% of what I believe most people would consider the minimum, MINIMUM acceptable level.
It's the same bullshit as the "Vista Capable" debacle. Microsoft is asking the question "does it run?" when they should be asking "does it run WELL?". Obviously, the answers are different.
How about something useful like, I dunno, the list of comments? Nope. Gotta click the right tab for that. Even that interface has been borked.
For example, the page is unusable at horizontal resolutions less than about 1000px. The floating boxes on the right will overlap the main page content making it inaccessible.
And can someone explain why every third story I go to has a smaller text size than the rest of the site?
My mistakes are due to knowing more about what patents ought to be than what they are. One need not understand every bit of law to know when its effects are harmful, after all.
"The law should be what I think it should be, and not what it actually is" is not a valid line of argument.
Don't apply to companies that aren't using writers for their games if you want to be a writer for games. ...unless you're capable of convincing them that they would make more money if they used professional writers, specifically you. If you can present a compelling case to the CEO that writing deficiencies are holding them back, you're in.
I think new 2d titles of classic series would be cash cows on something like the virtual console, and cost a lot less to develop. Your only option to play good 2d games is on a hand held.
Or, as I'm sure you must be aware by now, on something like the Virtual Console?
Mega Man 9. Geometry Wars.Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (...Alpha Championship Edition Zero Alpha II). They're all newly-released 2D titles playable on the big screen, made possible by the reduced development and distribution costs of a 'budget' channel like WiiWare or Xbox Live Arcade.
It's a great time to be a "retro" gamer right now.
If the problem is the noise or the light from the screens, kick people out for breaking the rules (one warning for light, no warnings for talking, for example)
Movie theater "ushers" are 17-year-old kids who need some pocket cash. People who insist on using their cell phones during a movie are belligerent assholes.
What motivation does the former have to confront the latter? In the BEST case scenario, they further disrupt the rest of the audience's enjoyment of the movie throwing the asshole out; in the worst case, they get punched in the face.
Using map/reduce will work, but there are better approaches to sorting.
I think we can safely assume that the hordes of egghead computer scientists are already exploring the alternate approaches.
Perhaps SyncSort has better theoretical performance, but Map/Reduce yields better results in Google's real-world scenarios? I don't know, it's all way above my head.
Apparently, Intel contributes not only by donating technology for classrooms and computer labs, but also by training teachers in how to use them effectively in the classroom and developing a "digital literacy" curriculum for them to use.
Similarly, the lesson plan covering nutrition was co-developed by the American Meat Council, and the civics lessons were designed by the US Department of Education.
Is it that school administrators do not see that there is a conflict of interest here, or just that they do not care?
Lists the different approach Silverlight takes over flash. It's mostly about making it better for developers than the end user.
So the only companies that are likely to adopt Silverlight are the ones that have lost site of the fact that they exist to serve their users, not their employees.
Come to think of it, are their any companies other than Microsoft themselves that have actually deployed Silverlight-based site content yet?
And think of the targeted advertising possibilities were your name, address, and banking details attached to that complete record of your travel patterns (not to mention the opportunities to detect "suspicious behavior").
Who said anything about my name address, and banking details? All the transit card needs to contain is a GUID and a balance of how many credits I have left.
Targeted advertising? Bring it on. I'd much rather stare at ThinkGeek posters while I wait on the platform than Dr. Zizmor's patients' skin rashes.
"Suspicious behavior"? This system carries 8 million people every single day. That threshold for picking out somebody to take aside and question based on "suspicious behavior" is going to be so high that I will never even come close to accidentally hitting it.
Better not mention that this card will enable the authorities to track all travel.
I depend on the public transportation infrastructure of New York City, and I wish "the authorities" (ooo, spooky) would start tracking all travel here already.
Right now, what does the MTA know about subway usage patterns? They know how many people get into the system at each station (thanks to electronic fare control gates), and have a pretty good idea of how many people exit the system at each station (not all exit gates have counters attached), but they can only estimate what people are actually doing once they're in the system. From Grand Central, how many passengers are heading uptown vs. downtown vs. crosstown? What are their ultimate destinations, and what routes take them there?
If every passenger's entrance and exit points from the system were recorded individually, that data could be analyzed to make the entire system more efficient.
I fail to understand how a technical compatibility list (which is what the "Vista capable" logo is all about) can be modified by management.
The "Vista capable" logo is Marketing and has never been anything more than that.
It's not as though you get a kernel panic if you try to run Vista on a machine with an i914 chipset -- the OS will run, but some optional graphical capabilities may perform poorly or not at all. Does that mean the OS and the machine are compatible, or incompatible? Depends on the specifics of what the user wants to do, and what the Marketing department wants to define "compatible" to mean.
So get on the horn with Dell and Gateway, and talk about how much money they lost, and how if they all went the same route on this, they could reduce their dependence on a vendor that clearly has no regard for their welfare.
Surely you're aware that what you're suggesting is a violation of antitrust laws?
I know, it'd be weird for Microsoft to be on the winning side of an antitrust suit for once, but is that what you really want?
There's something out there with the same LCD technology
Not that I'm aware of, although former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen has been planning to commercialize the LCD technology she developed.
And it's worth pointing out that it's not so much that the display has amazing quality, but rather that the display has amazing quality given the low manufacturing cost -- in backlit mode, i.e. all the time except in direct sunlight, the XO-1's 1200x900 (sub)pixel display is noticeably more artifacty than a similarly-sized 800x600 conventional display.
and an OS written specifically for the hardware by Red Hat
Saywhat? OLPC machines (at least those not burdened with Windows) run a nearly-stock Fedora Linux kernel. The GUI, Sugar, is essentially an alternative to Gnome/KDE and was written (in Python?!?!) by OLPC project team members, who may or may not have day jobs with Red Hat.
in order to maximize battery life?
While the hardware potential for extreme battery life exists in the XO-1 hardware, firmware/software support has lagged. I've updated to the latest stable release, and I can still only get a few hours of active use out of a battery charge.
If this story has taught me anything, it's that if there's anything worth reading in those old sheepskins/tablets/papyrii, some modern comedian will steal it and repeat it, saving me the trouble of figuring out all the obscure cultural references from 3000 years ago.
You'll be sorry when you hear Dane Cook's new routine on how the dudes at the BK Lounge always put too much garum in his meal of emmer loaves and saltpetered kale, brah. You'll be sorry!!!
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Not many "research students" have enough money to pay an attorney $250-350/hour to look over their employment contracts.
How much value do you place on the "software rights" (not a recognized legal term, as far as I'm aware) related to the work you'll be doing for the duration of the contract? More than a few hundo?
Brian Eno is generally credited with coining the term "ambient music" in the mid-1970s to refer to music that, as he stated, can be either "actively listened to with attention or as easily ignored, depending on the choice of the listener", and that exists on the "cusp between melody and texture."
The term may be from the mid-1970s, but the concept is much a half-century older. Erik Satie conceived the same thing as "furniture music" around 1917.
I went to one a few years ago at GenCon and found the host to be a prick, personifying all the bad stereotypes of a "hardcore gamer."
Funny, I find him to personify all the bad stereotypes of a "self-congratulatory putz".
The only credential Tommy Tallarico can claim that qualifies him for his role as a curator video game music is that he was the first to have the idea. (His sound design work on classic game titles like "Cool Spot" and "Color A Dinosaur" certainly doesn't suffice.)
His inclusion of his own works on the Video Games Live program alongside the likes of Uematsu and Kondo is, quite frankly, abuse of power.
a little thought reminds me that adaptive music goes back at least as far as Ballblazer in 1984-85
"Pitfall II" (1984) also used adaptive music; the soundtrack started off energetic, would switch to a gloomier minor-key version when you got hit and were sent back to a savepoint, and would return to heroic after picking up a prize. The original Atari 2600 version also may have been the first game cartridge to include its own custom audio chip; music was so important to that title that the extra hardware costs were justified, even as the market crash was beginning.
I Got burned too many times with grads that tooks computers because of there is money in IT but they are not actually interested in computers (and therefore not interested in learning more )
And your solution to this applicant screening problem was to seek candidates that have demonstrated their interest in learning by NOT going to university...?
The point was that it was a DX 10 application running entirely in software.
The point is that the performance demonstrated with this software rasterizer is no better than 25% of what I believe most people would consider the minimum, MINIMUM acceptable level.
It's the same bullshit as the "Vista Capable" debacle. Microsoft is asking the question "does it run?" when they should be asking "does it run WELL?". Obviously, the answers are different.
How about something useful like, I dunno, the list of comments? Nope. Gotta click the right tab for that. Even that interface has been borked.
For example, the page is unusable at horizontal resolutions less than about 1000px. The floating boxes on the right will overlap the main page content making it inaccessible.
And can someone explain why every third story I go to has a smaller text size than the rest of the site?
Discussing patents on Slashdot is like trying to diagnose mental illness using WebMD. Only with more mental illness.
RTFP, people. And the relevant patent law, while you're at it. The patent examiners did, so it's the least you could do.
My mistakes are due to knowing more about what patents ought to be than what they are. One need not understand every bit of law to know when its effects are harmful, after all.
"The law should be what I think it should be, and not what it actually is" is not a valid line of argument.
Don't apply to companies that aren't using writers for their games if you want to be a writer for games. ...unless you're capable of convincing them that they would make more money if they used professional writers, specifically you. If you can present a compelling case to the CEO that writing deficiencies are holding them back, you're in.
I think new 2d titles of classic series would be cash cows on something like the virtual console, and cost a lot less to develop. Your only option to play good 2d games is on a hand held.
Or, as I'm sure you must be aware by now, on something like the Virtual Console?
Mega Man 9. Geometry Wars.Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix (...Alpha Championship Edition Zero Alpha II). They're all newly-released 2D titles playable on the big screen, made possible by the reduced development and distribution costs of a 'budget' channel like WiiWare or Xbox Live Arcade.
It's a great time to be a "retro" gamer right now.
IBM are not going to give anyone a recovery password without proof of ownership.
And even if they did, it wouldn't do the thief much good, as these laptops are sold and supported by Lenovo, not IBM.
If the problem is the noise or the light from the screens, kick people out for breaking the rules (one warning for light, no warnings for talking, for example)
Movie theater "ushers" are 17-year-old kids who need some pocket cash. People who insist on using their cell phones during a movie are belligerent assholes.
What motivation does the former have to confront the latter? In the BEST case scenario, they further disrupt the rest of the audience's enjoyment of the movie throwing the asshole out; in the worst case, they get punched in the face.
Using map/reduce will work, but there are better approaches to sorting.
I think we can safely assume that the hordes of egghead computer scientists are already exploring the alternate approaches.
Perhaps SyncSort has better theoretical performance, but Map/Reduce yields better results in Google's real-world scenarios? I don't know, it's all way above my head.
Apparently, Intel contributes not only by donating technology for classrooms and computer labs, but also by training teachers in how to use them effectively in the classroom and developing a "digital literacy" curriculum for them to use.
Similarly, the lesson plan covering nutrition was co-developed by the American Meat Council, and the civics lessons were designed by the US Department of Education.
Is it that school administrators do not see that there is a conflict of interest here, or just that they do not care?
Lists the different approach Silverlight takes over flash. It's mostly about making it better for developers than the end user.
So the only companies that are likely to adopt Silverlight are the ones that have lost site of the fact that they exist to serve their users, not their employees.
Come to think of it, are their any companies other than Microsoft themselves that have actually deployed Silverlight-based site content yet?
And think of the targeted advertising possibilities were your name, address, and banking details attached to that complete record of your travel patterns (not to mention the opportunities to detect "suspicious behavior").
Who said anything about my name address, and banking details? All the transit card needs to contain is a GUID and a balance of how many credits I have left.
Targeted advertising? Bring it on. I'd much rather stare at ThinkGeek posters while I wait on the platform than Dr. Zizmor's patients' skin rashes.
"Suspicious behavior"? This system carries 8 million people every single day. That threshold for picking out somebody to take aside and question based on "suspicious behavior" is going to be so high that I will never even come close to accidentally hitting it.
The longest word I got was 'redrawerredrawers', which probably indicates that my wordfile is corrupted.
Better not mention that this card will enable the authorities to track all travel.
I depend on the public transportation infrastructure of New York City, and I wish "the authorities" (ooo, spooky) would start tracking all travel here already.
Right now, what does the MTA know about subway usage patterns? They know how many people get into the system at each station (thanks to electronic fare control gates), and have a pretty good idea of how many people exit the system at each station (not all exit gates have counters attached), but they can only estimate what people are actually doing once they're in the system. From Grand Central, how many passengers are heading uptown vs. downtown vs. crosstown? What are their ultimate destinations, and what routes take them there?
If every passenger's entrance and exit points from the system were recorded individually, that data could be analyzed to make the entire system more efficient.
I fail to understand how a technical compatibility list (which is what the "Vista capable" logo is all about) can be modified by management.
The "Vista capable" logo is Marketing and has never been anything more than that.
It's not as though you get a kernel panic if you try to run Vista on a machine with an i914 chipset -- the OS will run, but some optional graphical capabilities may perform poorly or not at all. Does that mean the OS and the machine are compatible, or incompatible? Depends on the specifics of what the user wants to do, and what the Marketing department wants to define "compatible" to mean.
*My* desktop computer is a Gnip-Gnop running a version of Fujitsu TOWNS OS implemented as an ELisp extension under GNU/EMACS.
I win.
So get on the horn with Dell and Gateway, and talk about how much money they lost, and how if they all went the same route on this, they could reduce their dependence on a vendor that clearly has no regard for their welfare.
Surely you're aware that what you're suggesting is a violation of antitrust laws?
I know, it'd be weird for Microsoft to be on the winning side of an antitrust suit for once, but is that what you really want?
There's something out there with the same LCD technology
Not that I'm aware of, although former OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen has been planning to commercialize the LCD technology she developed.
And it's worth pointing out that it's not so much that the display has amazing quality, but rather that the display has amazing quality given the low manufacturing cost -- in backlit mode, i.e. all the time except in direct sunlight, the XO-1's 1200x900 (sub)pixel display is noticeably more artifacty than a similarly-sized 800x600 conventional display.
and an OS written specifically for the hardware by Red Hat
Saywhat? OLPC machines (at least those not burdened with Windows) run a nearly-stock Fedora Linux kernel. The GUI, Sugar, is essentially an alternative to Gnome/KDE and was written (in Python?!?!) by OLPC project team members, who may or may not have day jobs with Red Hat.
in order to maximize battery life?
While the hardware potential for extreme battery life exists in the XO-1 hardware, firmware/software support has lagged. I've updated to the latest stable release, and I can still only get a few hours of active use out of a battery charge.
If this story has taught me anything, it's that if there's anything worth reading in those old sheepskins/tablets/papyrii, some modern comedian will steal it and repeat it, saving me the trouble of figuring out all the obscure cultural references from 3000 years ago.
You'll be sorry when you hear Dane Cook's new routine on how the dudes at the BK Lounge always put too much garum in his meal of emmer loaves and saltpetered kale, brah. You'll be sorry!!!
Many of thhe founding fathers were scared of democracy, and much preferred an aristocratic republic on the Roman model.
Yeah well, in the end, those founders were out-voted by their colleagues. Which either proves or disproves their point.